When push comes to shove, you soon find out who your real friends are. The trans-Tasman relationship has long been regarded as one of the strongest in the world: 13% of New Zealanders live in Australia and Australia’s day of remembrance, ANZAC Day, explicitly acknowledges our shared history. But
In a clear example of toadying to the CCP, Trade Minister Damien O’Connor has lectured the Aussies about being better behaved when dealing with China: Minister for Trade Damien O’Connor has suggested Australia speak with “more diplomacy” about China, so it too can have a “mature” relationship. He
Watching the slugging match between the legacy media and the Big Tech is somewhat akin to watching a 1970s kaiju movie play out in real-life. It’s Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla as the lumbering, old-media behemoth faces off against the shiny tech giants. The only question is, will the victorious monster
It’s the highlight on every lefty’s calendar, the Big Leftist Day Out, the annual Summer Festival of Pissing and Moaning. I’m talking, of course, about Australia Day – that time of the year when millions of Australians celebrate their nation – and a tiny gaggle of permanently-aggrieved activists screech
When it comes to the Wuhan Plague, there are rules and then there are rules. It all depends on who you are. We hoi polloi are locked down, muzzled and placed under house arrest and military curfew. The elite and their cronies get to do pretty much as they please.
For a group who spend so much time prating about “kindness” and “inclusion”, few people beat the “progressive” left when it comes to bullying, exclusion and unhinged hate. Their Goldstein du jour may change on a whim, but whether it’s Donald Trump or J K Rowling, there’s nothing
A plane-load of passengers bound for Australia forced to disembark just before takeoff: it’s a humiliating bit of symbolism for New Zealand’s self-annointed “COVID Queen”. After repeatedly bragging about her supposedly world-leading performance in eliminating the Wuhan Plague, suddenly New Zealanders are being treated like lepers. Australia yesterday
“De-radicalisation” seems to be about as effective as taking homeopathic medicine to mend a severed limb. The list of supposedly “de-radicalised” swivel-eyed Islamic fanatics who went on to get all jihad-y is longer than an arm and a leg piled up in the rubble of a suicide bombing. Parsons Green
If China thought that they would whip Australia into submission with their trade and diplomatic war, it’s starting to look as if they made a big boo-boo. Firstly, in an admirable display of fortitude, the Morrison government has ignored the incessant yapping of China-compromised Labor and the white-anting by
The cloud of mendaciousness and elitist obfuscation around the “Indigenous Voice” push grows ever denser and more malodorous. The longer this latest leftist fad plays out, the more it comes to resemble the 1999 Republican referendum: an activists’ picnic, no ordinary Australians allowed. We’re supposed to wait for whatever
Viv Forbes Washpool, Queensland, Australia Viv Forbes has qualifications in applied science and financial analysis and experience in industry and government. He earns no income from coal, oil or gas but does have solar panels on his shed. While the West wages war on coal, hydro-carbons power China’s industrial
The history of animal activism is littered with idiotic stunts by people who clearly don’t actually know that much about the animals they profess to love – stunts which more often than not backfire spectacularly. Last year, vegan nutcases stole a goat from a Victorian farm; in short order, the
It’s a tough enough battle defending free speech against the censorious left. It’s even worse when gutless so-called “conservatives” take their side. “The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity,” indeed. Politicians such as the Australian Prime Minister have constantly demanded more social
Australian students are ignorant but woke: just the way the Long March left intended. That’s the depressing conclusion to be gleaned from the latest assessment of Australian secondary students’ knowledge of civics – the basic skill set of a liberal democracy. Most secondary students lack the basic knowledge and skills
These unelected Little Hitlers are drunk on power. As I reported recently, Western Australia has become an elected dictatorship, but much of the rest of Australia has given up even the pretence of elected representation. Instead, elected governments have handed decision-making over to unelected bureaucrats; and, having got their claws
